Filling in the Ditch

I called the fellow that does tile drainage this spring about the short ditch over near Everetts. Somehow we ended up tile draining 25 acres up on the hill, and filling in the ditch that runs below the house. Here is a picture of the machines after they got started. They actually were parked there for 3 weeks, broke down and waiting for a part. We never got the little ditch by Everetts done.

We put 3 lines up the length of the ditch, and connected all the old lines to them. This is where the water comes out.

And this is where the water goes in. They are called "Hickenbottoms"

Look close, you can see water going in at the bottom. Tanya likes this picture.

Here are some pictures of the bulldozer filling in the ditch. We had a few gravelly knolls in the field that are now gone. He pushed aside the topsoil, put the rest in the ditch, and then spread the topsoil back over.

There was one rock he couldn't move.

When it was all finished, we harrowed it, picked a few rocks, then got something growing on it, just in case.

This is the view from up the silo. The large pile of dirt is to finish filling in down closer to the road. It was too far for the dozer to push, so we will move it with the dump trailer. It wasn't quite ready down there anyways, but it is now. In the second picture you can see where we put the tile lines in the swamp by the road.

And here is the tile machine laying tile on the hill. He is just about out of pipe, so in the second picture you see the excavator putting another roll on.

So I got this field plowed last week, only found one wet spot, and if the weather stays good next week, we might get a start on some rockpicking. I did notice a few.